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PREDEsTINATIoN.
Unconditional Salvation Further
Examined by a Churchman.

Wells addressed his audience from
I'd Cor, V ehapt., 10 verse.
"For We must all appear befor,
the judgment seat of Christ; thai
every one may receive the thing:
done in his body, according to that
he hath done, whether it be good
or bad"
1t this text means anything il
puts every man on a common level.
That is to say, it makes every man
responsible for his own conduct re-
gardless of the conduct of any 9TH
er. BY this text every man will
be rewarded or punished for what
he does himself-what transpires
In his own life, (for body here GER
tainly mean life). Upon this
theory we can see how a final iudg-
ment is necessary. But on the
theory of unconditional election
and unconditional reprobation the
idea of a judgment becomes prepos-
ferrous. If the elect were chosen
by the immaculate decree of God
before the world was made as the
Confession teaches and without any
reference to conduct or conditions,
then the status. of every man for
veal or woe was unalterably fixed;
and if the number of the elect was
then agreed upon, and that with
such a degree of definiteness, that
1t could neither be increased nor
diminished, then judgment has
already been past upon all man
kind, and a second trial would be.
from a human standpoint, without
any authority or right whatever.
Since the days of "Magna Charta"
it has been illegal to put any one
IN the British empire on trial a
second time for the same offense.
II tried and eonvictedth Judgment
of conviction stands, unless re-
yersed by appeal or writ of error to
a higher court, and the same is
true of an aequittal. A similar
provision is incorporated in the
bill of rights under the federal
constitution and also of our state
constitution. But the text says we
must appear before the judgment
seat of Christ that every one may
be rewarded or punished according
to that he hath done, whether it be
good or bad.
The conclusion therefore follows.
that this is the first accounting with
our race on account of conduct in
this hfe-that it is a primary, or
iginal transaction docketed for the
first time. Christ is the Judge,
the human race the culprits, our
deeds the subject of examination.
The Judge was himself once an in
habitant of our world was made in
the likeness of sinful flesh knows
III every weakness; was touched
with our infirmities ; twas tempted
In all points like as we are, but with
out SIM" 1t would look like there
a large preponderanee of the
equity in such a court. This
the a S no injustice can be
done. The character of the Judge
forbids such a thought. But if
men are punished, not for what
they have done, but for the sins of
Adam, then the Judge ceases to be
just, and this cannot be hence it
follows that the text states the
truth, "that every one nswer for
himself In other words to use a
trite phrase, "every tub stands on
its own bottom This is justice,
equity and common sense, and is in
with the entire life, con-
duct and career of Him "who spake
as never man spake." The life,
burial, resurrection, ascen-
glorification and coronation of
Jesus the Christ constitute the
seven grand pillars on which the
whole Christian superstructure is
reared. On the first three, viz
the death, burial and resurrection
of Christ, Paul bases the gospel by
which we r saved, if we keep in
memory what he breaches unto us,
how that Christ died for u sins,
was buried and rose again the third
day, according to the scripture.
! Cor. XIV, BID. To us this is a com
plete refutation of every syllable of
she doctrine of Calvinistic foreor-
unconditional election and
depreciation.
Peter, with the keys of the
OF Heaven dangling in
ais girdle, said at the house of
cornelius, o Gentle: "of a truth II
perceive that Godis no respecter of
persons; but in every nation he
hat feareth him and worketh
igteousness is accepted with him.
icts x, 334.355. T.
Nicho1s-Cubber1y.
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